The beauty of the internet is such that every opinion has become worthless; this goes doubly so for those with publish buttons on (relatively, we're humble) major websites. For every opinion, there's a matching counter-opinion, and that's great. Yesterday, we linked to an article by Mark Pilgrim about tinkerers and the iPad, and of course, someone was bound to disagree with that one.

That's not the point. The point is that Apple isn't the pillar of freedom that that famous commercial make it look like. Contrasting that commercial with Apple's actual behaviour does indeed create irony.
Not that the commercial ever had anything to do with how Apple actually worked as company.